CRITICAL GORILLA — THE FILTER WAS THE TRIP
Creative rationale: Today’s standout psychedelic story is a striking mescaline finding: researchers report that mescaline, LSD and psilocybin can produce substantially different brain-wide patterns yet converge on unusual connectivity involving the cerebellum , raising the possibility that altered sensory filtering—not simply their shared serotonin receptor—is central to the psychedelic experience. The work was conducted in awake rats, so the hypothesis remains provocative rather than settled.